Handouts
Overviews
- Organizing Research Paper Handout: Handout explaining general guidelines for how to organize a research paper.
- Developing a research proposal – graphical outline: Fantastic handout describing in graphical form the steps to developing a strong research proposal. Includes 1) Overview of writing a research proposal, 2) Developing a sociological research question, 3) Organizing a literature review, and 4) Proposing the methodology.
Topic selection and research questions
- Advice on helping students with topic selection: Handout from the Teaching Resource Center on helping students identify and narrow their research topics.
- Grad student advice on developing RQs: Advice from graduate students on developing a research question. Could be used as material for a handout, or starting point for developing class exercises that encourage students to work through the suggested steps.
Activities
- Research Questions and Design – Peer Workshop Activity: Activity where students work with their peers to narrow their research questions and set up research designs that focus in on answering their research question.
- Paper Draft - Peer Editing Activity: Handout to guide students' feedback on their peers' papers. Designed as a take-home assignment, but could easily be adapted for an in-class workshop activity.
- Grad student advice on developing RQs: Advice from graduate students on developing a research question. Could be used as material for a handout, or starting point for developing class exercises that encourage students to work through the suggested steps.
- Literature Review Memo assignment: Assignment leading up to development of a research paper by asking students to summarize existing literature on their topic, in relation to their own project.
- Peer Review Comment Sheet: Handout to guide students’ review of their peers’ research papers.